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Women Who Knew How to Rough It
These cowgirls–Ben Kirnan, Prairie Rose, Mable Strickland, Princis Mohawk, Ruth Roach, Kittie Canutt and Prairie Little–were well-known participants in rodeo events in Oregon. (I’ll take those boots third from the right.) Photographed in 1921 by Ralph Russell Doubleday.
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I love the not-demure women of the past. Those spunky women got by in a man’s world so I can get by in our silicone obscessed one.